What I Learned From Burning Down My House

Editor's Notes

1. 1 Augustus 1991 20 hour: My sister Karien calls her boyfriend from her holiday.
2. I’m answering the phonecall. I’m asking her if my father is around, if she can ask him to come to the phone and she can get a pencil and some paper. My sister wants to know what happens and freks out when I insist she passes my father.
3. I tell my father his house burned down. I have to repeat it three times.
4. ZelfgenoegzaamheidA feeling of contentment or self-satisfaction , especially when coupled with unawareness of danger or troubleComplancecy embraces the staus quoMy parents were not happy with their houseThey had a very expensive loanRelation was on cruise control
5. Zelfgenoegzaamheidcomplaisancesatisfactioncontentement de soi
6. ZelfgenoegzaamheidA feeling of contentment or self-satisfaction , especially when coupled with unawareness of danger or troubleComplancecy embraces the staus quoMy parents were not happy with their houseThey had a very expensive loanRelation was on cruise control
7. This is filled with energyFalse Urgency is built on a platform of anxiety and angerMore activity then productivityPassive aggresion
8. Too busy driving to take gas??PO /SM Too busy to attend demo’s Sprint reviews?
9. Aim for the heart not for the senseGreat leaders win over the hearts and minds of others
10. I read 20 to 30 pages a day, not just on software developmentI spend 20% of my income on training and courses.Listen to your customer interfacing employeesShow them don’t tell themGive as much disquiting information to as many peopleMake it clear the blame game will not be toleratedSend people out Bring people in
11. Too busy driving to take gas??PO /SM Too busy to attend demo’s Sprint reviews?
12. Teh medium is the messageStart meetings on timeAct VS WaitRespond fast, move nowClear the desks (agenda)Be visible urgent
13. MESware: 2006 7 am: I got a message on my answering machine from my boss at MESware. The building was caught in a fire from the factory below us. I’m asked not to come to work.I’m calling him. He clearly is down. I’m telling him I’m comming anyway,we’ll figure out a way to work from someone’s home.I warn my wife, don’t count on me to help with our two small kids.I start to dis-assemble my home office.By 10 AM me and 4 college’s are working in one of thems home.We do warn our russian collegaue’s.
14. My parents have a better home and are still togetherI learned to ask for helpFire at MESware 2006/02/27  first time there was a teamMan on the moon (Before the russians were winning the race for SpaceBush used 9/ 11Stop the line
15. A NONO is more then a skeptical
16. A NONO is more then a skeptical
17. A NONO is more then a skeptical
18. I like the respect for people
19. We are one team we either trust eacher or not
20. This comes from the first book on retrospectives from Norman Kerth. This was not about agile retrospectives but more about Post-Mortems. Still Norman has great idea’s and is one of the must read books for anyone that wanst to facilitate Retrospectives.The other one is Agile retrospectives on which most idea’s from this talk come from.
21. Children at breakfast
22. A sense of urgency will only become more essential
23. SPACIBA diagoyou